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What do you think each of the following functions do?

toTokens
fromWei
toDecimals
formatUnits

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Yeah that's exactly what they are, want to know what people might think the wrappers do though

i feel like these would all be wrappers around formatUnits in some way or another, like how viem has formatEther() which is really just formatUnits() internally. And parseUnits/parseEther for the opposite direction

For toTokens, what would you expect the input/underlying value to be?

converting units

toTokens - convert underlying value to number of tokens
fromWei - input(amount wei) -> expectedValue
toDecimals - convert value to format with certain # decimals
formatUnits - input (amount, decimals) -> human readable value

toTokens: not sure tbh

fromWei: takes two args, the amount of wei and the target format eg. gwei

toDecimals: takes two args, an integer value and the decimal precision to convert it to

formatUnits: takes three args, the "target" unit eg. ether, the amount and the "starting" unit eg. wei

that's what my intuition said :p